New Ask Ad Program
New, self-service ads at Ask Jeeves. According to their press release and blog post, Ask Jeeves Sponsored Listings replaces their older Premier Listings program. The new ads will appear above the ads...
View ArticleUpgraded Ask Desktop
Ask Jeeves has upgraded their desktop search product. In the blog post about it, the new features include the following: Folder Indexing Preferences Improved PDF indexing Email attachment name indexing...
View ArticleNew Image Search at Ask
Ask has launched its own image search database and now no longer relies on Picsearch for the data. Their press release and blog note that image searching is 16% of their total. In addition to the new...
View ArticleSignificant Changes at Ask.com
Alas, Jeeves the butler and long-time Ask Jeeves mascot is gone is an icon, as part of the name, and removed from the address. The search engine formerly known as Ask Jeeves is now just plain Ask.com,...
View ArticlePhrase Searching Improved but Not Yet Perfect
In the past, Ask handled phrase searching differently from the other search engines. Several years ago, phrase searching just did not work all the time. More recently, if a phrase search would get in...
View ArticleBlogs & Feeds on Ask
With Ask’s acquisition of Bloglines, it is about time that Ask has beefed up the Bloglines search capabilities. Previously, the Bloglines search was seriously broken, finding results no more recent...
View ArticleAsk Mobile
Ask announces the launch Ask Mobile, a cell phones and other mobile device version of Ask.com Web search. The posting highlights numbered shortcuts for quick access to Ask tools, a search history of...
View ArticleNew Ask Local
Ask has re-done their local search and re-launched it as AskCity. It is designed to integrate four searches: Business and Services, Events, Movies, and Maps and Directions. It is pulling local...
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Ask Goes 2.0: Experimental UI
Ask has a very nice, new, experimental user interface (UI) called Ask X which has a definite Web 2.0 look and feel, but it also has many attractive and useful new features. First seen two days ago at...
View ArticleAskEraser: Privacy Potential
Forgot to mention my Newsbreak article from last week, AskEraser: Privacy Potential. In working on that article and looking at AskEraser, one issue occurred to me that I did not cover in the piece...
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